Agora Gallery director, Angela Di Bello, greets Jackie Pecora, President of the New York Chapter of The Children’s Heart Foundation

February has been celebrated as American Heart Month since 1963. Thursday, Feburary 7th, the night of the opening reception at Agora Gallery, marked the first day of congenital heart disease week. In keeping with this spirit, fourteen artists in the February collective exhibitions have created additional artworks from which the entire sales proceeds will be donated to the Children’s Heart Foundation. On February 7th, representatives of the Children’s Heart Foundation attended the reception and were thrilled to be a part of this unique and important event: Art to [...]

Thursday, February 7th, was a memorable night at Agora Gallery. Many of the featured artists were present at the opening reception for Degrees of Abstraction and Idiosyncratic Expressions. Agora’s curator, Clara Lemaire, comments, “Both shows, which present opposite ends of the spectrum — representation and abstraction — were a joy to curate because of the underlying energy that breathes life into all the exhibited artworks. Another key aspect is the extent to which all of the art provokes a sharp emotional response, whereas each creation also brilliantly inspires contemplation and reflection.” Here’s a sneak peek.

Artist Dinah Cross James with her painting

Dinah Cross James has five oil paintings on display in Degrees of [...]

It is generally accepted that art articulates a definable viewpoint of the artist. The three new exhibitions at Agora Gallery profoundly exemplify this concept, which was reinforced in the conversations that took place at last Thursday’s opening reception there. Unbound Perspectives; The Persistence of Form; and Treasures of the Amazon Rainforest: A Solo exhibition of Photography by Robert Oelman, provide powerful commentary on the great breadth of artistic methods. Whether upholding an established style or rejecting all preceding tenets, whether meticulously accurate or suggestively abstracted, none of the works on view are void of artistic conviction.

Nearly an hour before the opening, nineteen of the exhibited artists arrived for a preliminary viewing of the show. Abound with emotion-laden anticipation, they perused the art in the gallery’s partitioned spaces before gathering to hear the laudatory words of Gallery Director Angela Di [...]